Gregory Benford

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I wish to thank a number of people who were instrumental in bringing this book into print. I thank Bill Regier of University of Illinois Press for his interest in this project and encouragement along the way. Special thanks to Professors Paul Alkon and David Samuelson for their cogent and fruitful comments on my manuscript. Most of all, I want to thank Gregory Benford for all the help he gave me during the writing of this book. He provided me with hard-to-get materials and gave valuable input concerning scientific and literary matters pertaining to his work. It was a great pleasure to work productively with him. Finally, supreme thanks to Danièle Chatelain, my colleague and partner, for her constant support. She has convinced me that the creative force behind science fiction is science itself, and that all SF—not just the so-called “hard” variety—must answer to its criteria and method. It is that insight that drives this book. GregoryBenford ...